Nick Phillips
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Academic Programs
Nick Phillips received his PhD from Indiana University in 2014.听 His dissertation, titled 鈥淪pace and the City: Peripheral Communities of Madrid and Barcelona鈥, focused on the production and representation of suburban spaces in contemporary Spanish detective fiction.听 His research and scholarly interests include contemporary Spanish and Latin American detective fiction, Spanish cinema, television and popular music, urban studies, studies of space and everyday life, Spanish ecocriticism, and Catalan language, literature, and film.
SCHOLARSHIP
Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture. Edited by Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips. Hispanic Issues, Vol. 29, 2022.听.
鈥淭he Thrill of the Crime in a Decade of Crisis: Carlos Montero鈥檚 El desorden que dejas鈥. Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture. Edited by Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips.听 Hispanic Issues, Vol. 29, 2002. .
鈥淒igital Cities, Digital Crimes: Mapping Spanish Detective Fiction鈥. Hispania听vol. 104, no. 4, December 2021. .
鈥淲hen the Bubble Bursts: A Spatial Interrogation of Spanish Crisis in Jos茅 脕ngel Ma帽as鈥 Sospecha.鈥 Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2019. .
鈥淪tuck in La Prosperidad: Madrid鈥檚 Metamorphosis from Dictatorship to Democracy in La soledad era esto.鈥 贬颈蝉辫补苍贸蹿颈濒补. Vol. 182, 2018. .
鈥淟ocalizing Humor and Crime in Julio Mu帽oz Gij贸n鈥檚 El asesino de la rega帽谩.鈥 Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2018. .
鈥淪panish Cinema and Ecocritical Labor Migrations: Immigrants as Human Waste in Las cartas de Alou and Biutiful.鈥 Letras Hispanas, Vol. 13, 2017. .听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听听
WEB PUBLICATIONS
鈥淒igital Cartographies of Spanish Detective Fiction.鈥 Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry. December 2016. Ongoing web project, .
CURRENT PROJECTS
Nick is currently working on a book project on contemporary Spanish detective fiction, especially from Andaluc铆a, and its depiction and resistance to political and economic crisis following the 2008 recession.听听
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COURSES TAUGHT
SPN 385: Studies in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film
Este seminario se enfoca en el g茅nero detectivesco y la novela negra de Espa帽a producido desde el fin de la dictadura de Franco hasta hoy d铆a.听 Los textos incluidos son o pueden ser representantes del g茅nero popular detectivesco, tanto en la literatura como en el cine y la televisi贸n.听 Adem谩s, investigaremos otras fuentes culturales producidas durante la democracia, como la arquitectura, la novela gr谩fica y la m煤sica popular, para interrogar los cambios inherentes en la transformaci贸n econ贸mica y cultural de Espa帽a desde los a帽os 70 hasta el siglo XXI.听 Adicionalmente, emplearemos la cr铆tica literaria sobre los textos y sobre el g茅nero detectivesco para ampliar nuestro an谩lisis.
SPN 320: Cultures of the Spanish Speaking World: Historical Memory and Cultural Production in 20th and 21st Century Spain
El objetivo de este curso es examinar la influencia de los productos culturales contempor谩neos como los programas de televisi贸n, el cine, la m煤sica y otros textos visuales y su relaci贸n con y manipulaci贸n de la memoria hist贸rica espa帽ola del siglo XX.听 Usaremos estos textos para criticar las representaciones hist贸ricas en comparaci贸n con los eventos reales, como por ejemplo la Segunda Rep煤blica, la Guerra Civil, la dictadura de Franco, y la transici贸n a la democracia.听 Examinaremos tambi茅n c贸mo las memorias pueden ser creadas, manipuladas, y destruidas a trav茅s de la producci贸n y el consumo de estos g茅neros visuales.
SPN 314: Studies in Modern Spanish Literature
El objetivo de este curso es ofrecer al/a la estudiante un panorama sobre la literatura espa帽ola de los 煤ltimos dos siglos, a trav茅s del enfoque tem谩tico del desarrollo del tema del espacio, desde lo rural hasta lo urbano contempor谩neo.听 As铆 el/la estudiante entender谩 mejor varios movimientos literarios diferentes, pertenecientes a los siglos XIX, XX, y XXI de la historia de Espa帽a, adem谩s de mejorar sus habilidades en la comprensi贸n oral y escrita del espa帽ol, la producci贸n escrita, y el proceso de an谩lisis textual.听 Esta clase se centrar谩 en tres g茅neros literarios principales: la narrativa (tanto novela como cuento corto), la poes铆a, y el teatro.听 A trav茅s de los textos estudiados y el acercamiento a varios espacios espec铆ficos, podemos analizar m谩s a fondo los contextos hist贸ricos y pol铆ticos presentes en Espa帽a durante los 煤ltimos 200 a帽os.
SPN 343: The Art of Language
SPN 295: Keeping up with your Spanish II (online conversation class taught during the COVID-19 pandemic)
SPN 285: Introduction to Textual Analysis
SPN 217: Intermediate Spanish
SPN 106: Beginning Spanish II
SPN 105: Beginning Spanish I
TUT 100: American Detective Fictions
In the tutorial every entering student explores a topic of interest to the student and the instructor in a small group, discussion-intensive setting. The objectives of the tutorial are to illuminate methods of inquiry rather than to cover topics comprehensively, focusing particularly on writing, critical reading, oral communication, and information literacy skills.
This class posits that the global popularity of detective dramas, murder mysteries, and shady sleuths can be traced to a uniquely American configuration of the genre.听 This semester, our investigation will take us down the dark alleys of detective fiction, allowing us to discover the evolution of the detective protagonist, the types of crimes uncovered, and the genre鈥檚 role in critiquing American society.听 We will begin with the Hardboiled subgenre of the 1930s and continue through the rise of the Police Procedural in the 1960s, ending with television鈥檚 impact on the genre in contemporary society. We will read two detective novels, Raymond Chandler鈥檚 The Big Sleep and John Ball鈥檚 In the Heat of the Night, and we will view several Hollywood adaptations of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, Harper, and Fargo.听 Finally, we will watch the first season of HBO鈥檚 hit series True Detective.听 We will also read several texts on the rules of the genre and its critical and popular appeal, both within America and beyond.